Game looks worse on my new monitor same resolution as old one

[BigTang_R500_IRELAND]

I play mainly Euro Truck Simulator 2 on a HP U28 4K monitor 60hz and decided to upgrade my monitor to a ASUS TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A for the higher refresh rate of 144 and G Sync feature but my game looks so much worse on my new monitor even though both monitors are 4K i have no idea why this is. On the HP my game looked really good and sharp but the Asus colours are as good and not as sharp a picture. Unfortunately I'm stuck with it now and I am currently back on my old monitor for the meantime, would anyone have any info why my picture quality is not as good? Thanks.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Google if there is custom calibration profile for your monitor. Probably simply needs to be properly calibrated if default factory settings suck.

[Rod]

Its a fast IPS 144hz 4k? It should look good. It must be the settings. Do a wipe of the previous monitor settings. In the display part of windows. Recheck all settings.


Learn the monitor osd and calibrate. Look for a review and try to get the icc profile. Or manually experiment! Sometimes i will find a youtube video of Peru 8k or Japan 8k and one of my local river that i know the color of the grass. I do that and dial in how it looks in real life.

[Iron Knights]

You CAN adjust sharpness from the monitor itself or worst case the GPU drivers.
Do you have an NVIDIA GPU ?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It's not setup right. They never are out-of-the-box.

First you have to actually enable the 144Hz and GSync in the Monitor along with possible other settings, such as tweaking a color preset along with enable the 1ms anti-motion blur.

Adjust and enable everything needed on the Monitor OSD Menu system before you make any changes in an OS or to OS related GPU settings. When done there, then enable GSync and 144Hz in NVIDIA Control Panel; along with RGB + FULL + 10bit.

[PopinFRESH]

Are you using the same cable you were using for your HP? Or did you change the cable to the Display Port 1.4 cable that came with the new monitor?

The HP would have come with an HDMI 2.0 cable or a Display Port 1.2 cable neither of which have enough bandwidth support to do 4K above 60Hz.

You'll want to either use the Display Port 1.4 cable that came with the display so that DSC works correctly and there is enough bandwidth or buy a decent Display Port 2.0 or 2.1 cable. In order to do 4K above 60Hz it needs to do Display Stream Compression (DSC) and Display Port 1.2 nor HDMI 2.0 lack the bandwidth and support for DSC.

Also you didn't include which GPU you are using; or your other system specs. Both would be helpful in knowing what configurations you'll likely want to make on the PC side of things.

[Azza ☠]

HP U28 4K monitor:
- IPS Panel
- Brightness: 400 nits
- Color gamut: 93% DCI-P3 / 100% sRGB

ASUS TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A monitor:
- Fast IPS Panel
- Brightness 400 nits (DisplayHDR 400 compliance)
- Color gamut: 90% DCI-P3 / 120% sRGB

If you are using DCI-P3 the colour range is just slightly less, as for sRGB it's slightly increased.

Making sure you have the ICC Profile enabled for that monitor to use the colour range correctly.

Go to the official monitor website > support:
https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/monitors/tuf-gaming/tuf-gaming-vg28uql1a/helpdesk_download?model2Name=TUF-Gaming-VG28UQL1A

(Optional) Go over to the BIOS & Firmware, if a newer version consider flashing your monitor up to the latest. You might need to connect your monitor with the additional USB cable to flash update it.

Still under the monitor website...

Select your OS and download the driver package: ASUS_VG28UQL1A_WHQL_Driver

Extract the driver folder:
- Right-click on the INF file > Install
- Right-click on the ICC or ICM profile file > Install Profile

Check under Start > Settings > System > Display > Advanced display > Display adapter properties for Display 1 > Color management

You want to ensure the correct monitor ICC Profile is selected and marked (default). You can remove old ones if desired and toggle between them. This will best colour match what you both see on the monitor screen and print out. If it's using a native or worst a different monitor profile, it can look completely off and pick up on wrong colours and limit the colour range.

Download and install the latest NVIDIA graphic card drivers too, if you haven't already.

Right-click on your desktop > NVIDIA Control Panel
- Under Setup G-SYNC, ensure it's enabled for both Windowed and Full Screen Mode. Apply.
- Under Change Resolution, ensure it's PC 3840x2160 (native) and has the max refresh rate selected 144Hz. If the refresh rate doesn't appear available, check under the monitor's physical menu settings itself. Apply.

NOTE: For G-SYNC to work you will want to use the DisplayPort cable (version 1.3 or higher) to connect the monitor to the graphics card. Make sure whatever monitor cable you use it can support up to the resolution, colour profile range and max refresh rate bandwidth. DisplayPort cable 1.3 or 1.4 is sufficient to support a 4K, 24-bit colour monitor at a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz or 144Hz.

Finally under Start > System > Display > Ensure "USE HDR" is enabled

[BigTang_R500_IRELAND]

Thanks for the reply's everyone. I don't know too much about my PC specs but i know i have RTX 4090 and i9 13900k. I'll do some more research on how to change some of these suggested settings and try them out. Thanks.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yea that too. Don't use the old cable. Use a new HDMI 2.1 or DP 1.4+

But still you have to do all the other settings like I said above.

People saying turn on HDR. No never turn tbat on. It's pointless on PC and it locks you out from customizing your Monitor color settings, making those presets pointless. Leave HDR off.

[kingjames488]

you were probably used to some filters the other monitor used, or have the new one set up wrong.

turn off all of the "enhancements", they just mess with the true output.

[Azza ☠]

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Yea that too. Don't use the old cable. Use a new HDMI 2.1 or DP 1.4+

But still you have to do all the other settings like I said above.

People saying turn on HDR. No never turn tbat on. It's pointless on PC and it locks you out from customizing your Monitor color settings, making those presets pointless. Leave HDR off.

HDR is fine for using on Win 11, since they had got the Auto-HDR working in the latest updates for older games, then just depends if newer games/movies support it.

Ideally, you want a HDR 10+ (HDR VISA 1000) monitor however, for the full range. So with a DisplayHDR 400 compliance, I would suggest checking out what's better, on or off. It might not be as worthwhile.

With those PC Specs, I would recommend the ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM gaming monitor, but that's just me and my budget. It can be pretty pricey wholesale for the public and is an OLED display so will need pixel cleaning builtin to the monitor every now and then to prevent any screen burn-in. Yet that would be pixel perfection and a whopping 240Hz refresh with G-SYNC.

Between the HP U28 4K monitor 60hz and ASUS TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A 120hz, you might not notice much in the way of quality, just a bit more gaming performance. Hopefully, it will look as good as the previous monitor with the correct profile and was just that. The monitor specs don't look bad.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I just don't see the point. When it's enabled I can't adjust or use my Monitor presets for color and such, which are more useful then HDR alone.

[Azza ☠]

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

I just don't see the point. When it's enabled I can't adjust or use my Monitor presets for color and such, which are more useful then HDR alone.

HDR is High Dynamic Range.

This makes adventure and horror games/movie pop like crazy.

However, there's real and fakish HDR. You want HDR 10+ (which is VISA HDR 1000 or higher). Anything below 1000 nits is kinda fake, but can still get some of the pure blacks.

Walking through a cave, it's no longer grayish, but pure black, then with ray tracing, you see the lights shine through it. It's ultra realistic and easy to watch on the eye, but can even blind you when you directly look towards the light.

Horror movies you can actually watch, without going wth am I looking at?

I love real HDR + Ray Tracing, but it's extremely demanding. Hense Nvidia high-end graphics card will need to use DLSS to keep the FPS from dropping off like crazy too, when you get to 4K resolutions.

It's one of those things like SSD (Solid State Drives), you don't need it, but it's nice. Then you can't really go back, once you have had a taste.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It only looks good when you sit in dark room. It might good to some extent but I prefer using my Monitor presets and such, which actually looks better overall in most movies and games

[Pocahawtness]

引用自 Azza ☠：

引用自 Bad 💀 Motha：

Yea that too. Don't use the old cable. Use a new HDMI 2.1 or DP 1.4+

But still you have to do all the other settings like I said above.

People saying turn on HDR. No never turn tbat on. It's pointless on PC and it locks you out from customizing your Monitor color settings, making those presets pointless. Leave HDR off.

HDR is fine for using on Win 11, since they had got the Auto-HDR working in the latest updates for older games, then just depends if newer games/movies support it.

Ideally, you want a HDR 10+ (HDR VISA 1000) monitor however, for the full range. So with a DisplayHDR 400 compliance, I would suggest checking out what's better, on or off. It might not be as worthwhile.

With those PC Specs, I would recommend the ROG Swift OLED PG32UCDM gaming monitor, but that's just me and my budget. It can be pretty pricey wholesale for the public and is an OLED display so will need pixel cleaning builtin to the monitor every now and then to prevent any screen burn-in. Yet that would be pixel perfection and a whopping 240Hz refresh with G-SYNC.

Between the HP U28 4K monitor 60hz and ASUS TUF Gaming VG28UQL1A 120hz, you might not notice much in the way of quality, just a bit more gaming performance. Hopefully, it will look as good as the previous monitor with the correct profile and was just that. The monitor specs don't look bad.

You should not use HDR with Windows.

Allow the game to turn it on, or by using an application like AutoActions to turn it on and off when playing games, but it should not be left on all the time.

OP, I don't know why you are having issues with the monitor, by all accounts it's a very good monitor. I wonder if games or apps are switching to the wrong resolution?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

But then you can run into odd issues if you ALT+TAB out of a game when the game has HDR enabled